May Allison
May Allison (born June 14, 1890 in Rising Fawn , Georgia , † March 27, 1989 in Bratenahl , Ohio ) was an American actress . She gained prominence through her roles in silent films as a partner of Harold Lockwood .
Life
May Allison was the youngest of five children of Dr. John Simon Allison and Nannie Virginia Allison. In 1914 she made her debut as an actress in the play Apartment 12-K on Broadway . Allison then moved to Hollywood to begin a career as a film actress. She got her first small role in 1915 on the side of Theda Bara in A Fool There Was .
Allison gained fame in the same year in the female lead in the tragic romantic comedy David Harum at the side of Harold Lockwood. The screen couple was extremely well received by the audience and therefore played together in 24 other films in the following years. Allison and Lockwood are one of the first screen couples in film history.
After Lockwood died of the Spanish flu in 1918 at the age of 31 , Allison's film career declined sharply. She continued to star but did not regain her old popularity. In 1927 she ended her career as an actress with a supporting role in The Telephone Girl .
May Allison was married four times. Her first two marriages to Colonel JL Stephenson and actor Robert Ellis were divorced. In her third marriage, she was married to the publisher James R. Quirk from 1926, before he died in 1932. Her fourth and final marriage to Carl Norton Osborne lasted over forty years until his death in 1982. After her film career, Allison spent a lot of time in her vacation home in Bermuda . She had her main residence in the small community of Bratenahl in Ohio, where she died on March 27, 1989 at the old age of 98. Allison was buried in Gates Mills South Cemetery in Cuyahoga County .
Filmography (selection)
- 1915: A Fool There Was
- 1915: David Harum
- 1915: The Governor's Lady
- 1915: The Great Question
- 1915: The Buzzard's Shadow
- 1916: The Other Side of the Door
- 1916: The Gamble
- 1916: The Broken Cross
- 1918: The Winning of Beatrice
- 1919: Almost Married
- 1919: Fair and Warmer
- 1920: The Cheater
- 1920: Held in Trust
- 1920: Are All Men Alike?
- 1921: The Last Card
- 1926: Mismates
- 1926: The City
- 1927: The Telephone Girl
Web links
- May Allison in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- May Allison in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- Entry on silenthollywood.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ May Allison. In: Find a Grave . May 2, 2004, accessed April 9, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Allison, May |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rising Fawn , Georgia , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1989 |
| Place of death | Bratenahl , Ohio , United States |